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The Wife

by Meg Wolitzer

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Jul 15, 2026 05:07PM

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“Perhaps if older people were a little more honest, and a boy were not taught to idealize in women the very qualities which can make him utterly unhappy.”
― Willa Cather, One of Ours

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“He’s learned over many painful episodes, that his beautiful, intelligent wife doesn’t do reassurance. Better than that, he ‘s started to understand why. She isn’t mean; it’s her experience of men and her defenses against being let down kicking in. It’s just how she processes challenges. It helps to see these things; he is accruing alternatives to vengeance and anger. Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

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“Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention.”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

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“We are all like clay tablets, chipped around the edges, hiding our little secrets and cracks.
Not everyone, though .
Everyone, I promise you.
Is there such a thing as absolute happiness? Never ending success? A perfect marriage? A quick fix to cure anxiety? We want to believe there is . Then we’re defeated, humbled. We learn to accept there will always be something amiss, something broken, and unless we are kind to ourselves it won’t change, this feeling of incompleteness.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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“In my 20s I prided myself on handling booze better than most. We’d go to pubs and all the girls would stop after a few shots, except for me – I could drink the men under the table. In my early 30s, I was proud that I was a ‘high functioning ‘ drinker. I could easily go days and weeks without drinking. No problem! I loved proving that I had self control, but I also knew there was a reward at the end. Drinking was how I motivated and calmed myself. Then things started to shift, but I still believed it was all fine. I had never been a mean drunk. Never argumentative. I just got a lovely little buzz. Surely there was no harm in that. It was mild and mellow, except I could no longer have a good time without nursing a stiff drink. I had zero patience with people, unless I was tipsy enough, in which case I didn’t care. It took me a long time to acknowledge something was off.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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